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Application Developer / Software Engineer

Bank of America - New York, NY3.9

Job Description:
Responsible for developing, enhancing, modifying and/or maintaining applications in the Global Markets environment. Software developers design, code, test, debug and document programs as well as support activities for the corporate systems architecture. Employees work closely with business partners in defining requirements for system applications. Employees are expected to have in-depth capital markets product knowledge, and manage a high level of risk. Employees typically have in-depth knowledge of development tools and languages. Is clearly recognized as a content expert by peers. Individual contributor role. Typically requires 5-7 years of applicable experience. This job code is only to be used for associates supporting Global Markets.

Overview

Versatile Developer/Front Office

We are hiring an applications programmer to assist a global team of working directly with the Fixed Income Traders and Quantitative Strategists in Global FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities). This is a front office IT role with direct interaction with the quant business strategists, front line traders, and trade support as well as the larger IT community that supports the trading desks

The primary languages and technologies we employ are Python, Java, Javascript, OPENFIN, and WPF. Sucessful candidate will be working on multiplatform applications within: Quartz (a platform for rapid financial application development in Python), XASF (a platform for standardized algo development in Java), ATA (a platform for Hadoop, Spark and Cloudera based data workflows in Scala or Java or Python), and OpenFin (a next generation platform for industrialized trading applications). The essential skills give the candidate a foothold in each of these areas and a great chance to grow as well as lead. We do not have business analysts and as such the candidate will need to be able to gather complex requirements directly from the users and support, then implement them independently, and automatically regression test.

Responsibilities

Work with the trading desk, support and quants to analyse requirements, maximize personal interactions in a global world.

Rapidly turn requirements into high quality applications which are robust enough for a trading desk, and minimize risk.

Take responsibility for code personally by understanding the application, while staying focused on development of new code

Be prepared to work with minimal supervision and without detailed specifications

Contribute to the larger IT community. We operate an “open source” policy and everybody can see everybody else’s code.

Be interested in finance and motivated to continually learn on the job

Requirements

We are looking for an experienced programmer with a computer science or related engineering degree. The candidate must also possess excellent business knowledge, ideally in fixed income or index based products, and must have been exposed to working in a demanding user environment such as a trading floor. Our team relies on technical excellence, independent action based leadership, and well defined plans.